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My Poweredge 1600sc acts as my main server for my network, running CentOS 5.2. I wanted a way to manage the server, and keep an eye on temperatures, the raid controller, etc. and found out through reading some threads in Dell's Linux-Poweredge archives that Openmanage was used successfully with Centos. My raid controller is an LSI Megaraid Ultra 320-SCSI card, which is equivalent to Dell's PERC 4/SC controller.

Dell has a yum repository providing the necessary files to download and install the OpenManage application. I found this repository from the Dell Community web blog. Once Openmanage was installed, you can use the snmp's found here for gathering stats. That sight is great for tweaking the mrtg.cfg file - which I have done, and is shown below. One of the nice things with Openmanage is you can use a web browser from anywhere on your network. Simply point to the ip address and port 1311 in your web browser (e.g. https://192.168.1.1:1311) to view the status of the disks on the raid controller, read temps and fan rpms, as well as other usefull stuff.